Here's how to make refreshing and summery gin cocktails
LONDON -- Summer is right around the corner, and that means one thing: Cocktails.
Stow away your mulled wine and your hot gin and tonic, it's time for a cool, refreshing, summery cocktail. And, gin just so happens to be the perfect summer ingredient for that.
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Mashable visited East London Liquor Company to get schooled by Leon Dalloway, who runs gin tour company The Gin Journey.
Dalloway showed us how to make three simple-to-make gin cocktails: a Bramble, a "Posh" G&T and his signature East London Spritz.
Bramble
Ingredients: 50ml London dry gin
20ml fresh lemon juice
17.5ml sugar syrup (1:1 sugar to water)
5ml Crème de Mûre
Method: Add the gin, lemon juice and sugar syrup to a cocktail shaker. Then shake and strain over ice into a rocks glass and drizzle around 5ml Crème de Mûre over the drink. Garnish with two straws and a lemon zest.
"Posh" G&T
Ingredients: 50ml London dry gin
12.5ml sweet Vermouth
2 dashes of peach cocktail bitters
Tonic water
Method: Build the drink in a wine glass, adding your gin, Vermouth and cocktail bitters. Garnish with an orange zest and two straws, you can also use berries or herbs -- go wild. Top with tonic water.
East London Spritz
Ingredients: 50ml London dry gin
12.5ml St. Germain elderflower liqueur
2 dashes of orange cocktail bitters
Prosecco
Method: Add the gin, liqueur and cocktail bitters into a wine glass. Top with bubbles preferably of the Italian kind. Garnish with lavender and a slapped mint sprig.
Watch the tutorial in full here
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